Brit Pettersen

Brit Pettersen
nation	Norway
birthday	29th November 1961 (age 58)
place of birth	Lillehammer , Norway
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1980 Lake Placid Season gold 1984 Sarajevo Season bronze 1984 Sarajevo 10 km  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1982 Oslo Season bronze 1982 Oslo 5 km silver 1985 Seefeld 20 km bronze 1987 Oberstdorf 10 km
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup January 9, 1982  World Cup victories in individual 10 ( details )  Overall World Cup 2. (1981/82, 1982/83)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 10 6th 7th

Brit Pettersen Tofte (born November 29, 1961 in Lillehammer ) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier who started from 1982 to 1988.

Career

Tofte celebrated her greatest successes with the Norwegian 4x5 km relay (world championship title 1982, Olympic victory 1984). There is also an Olympic bronze medal and three other World Cup medals. In the cross-country skiing world cup , Pettersen won ten races, came second six times and third seven times. In the overall World Cup ranking she came second in 1982 and 1983, and third in 1985 and 1986. In 1986 she received the Holmenkollen Medal .

After her resignation in 1988, Pettersen studied economics and marketing. She worked for an insurance company, was responsible for organizing the cross-country races at the 1994 Winter Olympics in her hometown of Lillehammer, and also worked for the Norwegian Ski Association and the IOC 's Athletes' Commission.

successes

winter Olympics

• 1980 in Lake Placid : Bronze with the relay
• 1984 in Sarajevo : gold with the relay, bronze over 10 km

World championships

• 1982 in Oslo : gold with the relay, bronze over 5 km
• 1985 in Seefeld : Silver over 20 km
• 1987 in Oberstdorf : Bronze over 10 km

Norwegian championships

• 1980 : bronze over 10 km, bronze over 20 km
• 1981 : bronze over 5 km, bronze over 10 km
• 1982 : Gold over 20 km, gold with the relay, silver over 5 km, silver over 10 km
• 1983 : Gold over 5 km, gold over 20 km, gold with the relay, bronze over 10 km
• 1984 : Gold over 5 km, gold over 10 km, silver with the relay
• 1985 : Silver over 5 km, silver over 20 km, bronze over 10 km, bronze with the relay
• 1986 : Gold over 10 km, silver over 20 km, bronze with the relay
• 1987 : Gold over 5 km
• 1988 : Silver over 10 km
• 1989 : Bronze with the relay

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 12, 1982	Falun	20 km
2.	April 13, 1982	Kiruna	5 km
3.	January 8, 1983	Klingenthal	10 km
4th	January 14, 1983	Stachy Zadow	10 km
5.	March 12, 1983	Oslo	20 km
6th	December 13, 1984	Val di Sole	5 km
7th	December 13, 1985	Bibawik	10 km classic
8th.	March 8, 1986	Falun	30 km classic
9.	December 13, 1986	Val di Sole	5 km classic
10.	March 21, 1987	Oslo	20 km classic

World Cup overall placements

season	space	Points
1981/82	2.	126
1982/83	2.	136
1983/84	8th.	87
1984/85	3.	113
1985/86	3.	104
1986/87	5.	75
1987/88	41.	7th

Web links

• Brit Pettersen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Brit Pettersen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )